Did he just say "Sitting on the air like a load off her head"?

Magic.

Archie comics are so wholesomely clean cut and inoffensively dull they make Charles Schultz look like Charles Bukowski and Sesame Street look like Homicide: Life on the Street.

My only response after watching that was
"Huh?"

So they took crazy taxi, put a bunch of Archie kids in the mix..and a prom?! Best game ever!
Because mowing the lawn is so fucking exciting...

When this game comes out, some hacker better make it so Archie can ditch his jalopy, carjack Principal Weatherbee and run down hookers and/or Reggie Van Pelt.

Has Archie ever featured on Fan Fiction Friday? I can't remember because my brain wants to protect me and won't let remember.

Fuck the haters.
Any game that allows you to play as Hot Dog is guaranteed awesome.

Also, the music made me ask "Is this... Fountains of Wayne?" Then promptly answer myself "No. No it is not."

Seriously though, this looks like a terrible Gamecube game.

On the plus side, this means technology has reached a point where bottom-rung videogames now look indistinguishable from bottom-rung pre-rendered animation from 1984.

Maybe we can get a hot coffee style patch...Veronica and Betty...drool

Oh, god, the horrible face coming at you at 1:46.
Oh, God!

Aaaaa! The pain!

And seriously, is Archie STILL driving a 90 year old junker in the comics? He could probably sell that antique and make enough to get himself a Prius and an iPhone.

It's like Grand Theft Auto, except you only play the minigame sidequests.

And a clown crapped a rainbow on the color palette.

Add Zombies and it'd be OK.

Wow, it's almost like this VG was created in 1941.

Jeez. Whose responsible this? Seriously, I love open world games (Bully, GTA, etc.) so there is actually a chance I might have at least rented this if it didn't: a) have worse graphics than GTA III. b) have gameplay that seems to only consist of watching excruciating cutscenes that are worse than motion comics c) running over arbitrary "power-ups" that don't seem to do anything except explode into hearts and arrows or else repair your car. d) had actual writing and voice acting and maybe, you know, a story. What a piece of crap. Although, I'm sure Niko Bellic could have a field day with the Riverdale PD.

I think part of my mind just spontaneously combusted after seeing that. Dear lord, why would anyone want to toss this travesty out into the world when it would be so much better buried in a deep hole somewhere?

Yeah, not the most exciting comic book that could have made into a sandbox like game but, I'll probably buy and play due to my liking of Archie comics.

At 1:43 I think Archie is driving Ecto 1.

I don't know why everyone's coming down so hard on this PlayStation game...

... what? This isn't 1998? Whaddya mean we're up to PS3 now?

But seriously. I can't see this offal coming out on any current gen system, not even the Wii. Terrible animations, shit draw distance, decade old gameplay. Just who is this game for? People with 47 chromosomes?

I so wanna play this game... It can't be worse than Final fight: Streetwise.

That is horrifying. And the music...

this video proves that not only are some video game makers reaching a new low but Archies desire to not finaly give up the ghost and fade away for good contiues so his sweetness and evil boringness lives on and on.

Excellent. I know what I'm getting for Christmas.

The sad part is that this is pretty indistinguishable from all the crap on the Wii. (Yes, I'm a Nintendo fanboy, but I still think it blows.)

This game apparently hones your game skills in walking without obstructions, defensive driving, chores, and picking flowers.

Nonetheless, I'm driving to Riverdale!
Picking up the pieces left out on the trail!
I'm driving to Riverdale! Straight for the gold, I ain't gonna fail!

I have to go kill myself now thanks...

"Archie's Riverdale Run! Just as fun as "Grand Theft Auto Kansas"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8BTyY_Uyc

why god why! what have we done to deserve this?!!

I don't know what you're talking about. Looks amazing to me! :)

I seriously hope it has PVP.

Having grown up on Archie comics (Arch and the "Sesame Street" crew taught me to read), I'm generally interested in new and innovative ways Archie is brought to the masses. For completists' sake, I bought the "Archie" animated series from the 60s on DVD a few months ago. Honestly, was not worth the 20 bucks I spent on it. Papa goddamn fucking Smurf is the voice of Archie. What the fuck.

But having lived through the Archie Hell that is the reign of Victor Gorelick, the EIC at Archie Comics, I can honestly say this game is intriguing. Yes, the cover music is shit, vaguely reminiscent of the original Archies band, but trying to come off as "hip new pop group of the 21st Century!" and failing miserably.

Personally, I'm glad Archie's got his old jalopy, Betsy, back. The 1960s Mustang he's had in the comics since 1992 is ok, but it's...it's not unequivocally Archie. It's a clunker, yes, a red beat to shit car good for a teenager, but... the Mustang does not have the same soul and graphical punch that Betsy had.

Whomever worked on this game --design-wise, at least-- has paid attention to the Archie chronology, and for that, they have my respect. Over the last ten years, Gorelick has taken the Archie history set down by Stan Goldberg, the late Dan DeCarlo, Samm, Bob Montana and many more and thoroughly fucked it up the ass. The new comics are dull, lifeless shells of their former selves, filled with tedious writing, stiff and lifeless art, and more typos than you could shake a stick at.

Before the passing of Dan DeCarlo, the Archie line was respected. It had class, humor, fun and life. Plus, they published the TMNT series for a long time; you can't forget that. The writers weren't beyond trying something new, but back then, they realized that if what they had out wasn't working, they'd stop. The new people... They just don't know when to quit.

But...I'm rambling.

Like I said. I'm intrigued to see and play this game. Granted, it looks rather bland, but when has there been a good mass media-to-game translation that didn't look a little flat? (Example: "Ultimate Spider-Man" had rich designs by Mark Bagley, and a beautiful visual world, but when it was ported to the PS2, things kinda....slid. It had the Bagley influence, but parts of it felt lacking.)

I saw a playable Miss Grundy, as well as Mr. Weatherbee and Moose. Color me intrigued, if nothing else. Bad graphics and all, if I can run Moose around, I'm golden.

Well, I can still pound my meat to Veronica.

We have an Archie GTA clone and we still don't have a Batman GTA game (which is the second-best idea for a GTA clone out there behind Ghostbusters).

No justice in the world, I tells you.

This reminds me of Xavier Renegade Angel, only it's not funny, and a kid with Downs designed the Riverdale gang.

At 1:46ish someone is dancing with a life-sized doll. I had the fortune of the video freezing there and I saw the ball-joint elbow and ventriloquist dummy mouth. WTF world.

ow, my head just grew a tumor watching that. somebody took one of the shitty simsons games,modded it to archie, and ported it. please tell me that music came off an old scooby doo episode. like scooby meets archie.

I think this game is better described as Grand Theft Auto: Mormon Edition

This has to be a joke, right? I mean, kids to not actually read this comic strip, right? So why would they want to play at game based on a strip that only their grandparents would possibly read?

@Mock26
Because...
Target Audience > Grandparents!

Tin Tin Sandbox game need to happen.

It's sad when 3D rendered game versions of cartoon characters look better than the actual comic book illustrations scattered throughout. I think Jim Amash is one of the world's great comics historians but I think this is his inking in those illos and it thoroughly sucks. Scratchy, mis-shapen characters with ugly faces. They need to pull out some comics from the mid-to-late 60's and trace until they get it right.

As for the music - uggh. The game should just loop "Sugar Sugar" over and over :-)

WTF? Is this a joke?
Who is this skewed for? Surely the only people who would even consider playing this are 50-60+.
I guess that answers my own question because at least that would explain the horrendous game play, which seems to consist of:
a) Walking/running up to "things"
b) Safely driving "wacky" vehicles at or within the speed limit.
Old people love that sort of shenanigans.
Does anyone even know who Archie is anymore?
Soooo stupid...

ugh. is it bad that when i saw this i called my girlfriend over (who is a long time fan of the comic) over to see the video. And at the end of the video we both simultaneously said "wow"?

by the way, Rob, I'm a friend of Mr. Gibson! He's the one who informed me of your most excellent website!

I actually take this as proof there is a God. He just hates you. Very very much.

Can't wait for this game. Now where did I put my Nintendo 64?

There needs to be a patch that lets you mow pedestrians down with that lawn mower...

More fog than Superman 64! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

When the player rammed the hamburger truck, I really expected the game to force the player to exchange insurance info and wait for the Riverdale police to arrive.

All I can say about that was, I was watching it with my 3 year old, and by the 2:30 mark, all he could say was "Why does he keep driving?" over and over, and all I could do was stare at the screen, trying to come up with an answer, but the video was dropping my IQ faster then a sack full of bricks.

What leads you to believe this is coming to current consoles? It says PC on the YouTube video and website.

Yea, it seems a bit cheeky. But it's a childs game for chrissakes...

Critiquing it about equivalent to an adult remarking on the silliness of riding a tricycle. Not worth getting upset about.

This looks like someone's animated version of a Fan Fiction: "Archie meets Paperboy"...

Yikes.

The only redeeming point will be if Archie gets to bed Betty & Veronica (preferably together) by the end of the "quest"...

- It looks like The Simpsons: Hit and Run without the wit and charm.
- If "they" ever hand out awards for the most mediocre rock music ever made, this composer will take home the prize.
- You go Archie. Mow that lawn. Now kids can play video games about chores they hate to do.

Hmmm. I guess senior citizens do play video games now. Who else can this be made for? Seriously.

You're even playing for Jughead's dog? Wow..

But think how long it takes to beat a game that doesn't let you run or even jog